Dear REAL Parenting Followers,
De-stress yourselves. You will have more fun with your kids when you empower them to become independent, thinking human beings with whom you can enjoy having fun. Take a parenting class, ideally with your co-parent.
One parent who just finished my class wrote on her evaluation, "My husband and I are on the 'same page' and can support each other better." She added, "A lot of the information is 'common sense' but not something you may naturally think of as parents, so it's nice to know it's something we can all do."
Both my late summer and fall classes are on my website. Details on my late summer classes are spelled out below.
Please forward to those you know who might be interested.
Warmly,
Stephanie Bryan, LCSW, CAC III
Clinical Social Worker and Parent Coach
303-875-7294
REAL Parenting: Where you learn to give and get Respect, Empathy, Appreciation, and Love.
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Late Summer Parenting Classes
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Love and Logic Early Childhood Parenting Made Fun!™
Tuesdays, 6:30 - 9:00 PM. July 30 - Aug. 27, 2013. At Dreamcatcher Direct Instruction Centers, 5440 Conestoga Ct. (just NW of 55
th and Arapahoe), Boulder.
Parenting the Love and Logic Way™
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I Love Your Rituals, by Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D.
The cover says, "Fun Activities for Parents and Children That:
* Boost brain potential
* Encourage cooperation and caring
* Promote learning and literacy
* Increase attention and decrease power struggles
* Build bonds of unconditional love"
This is how it is described on Amazon.com:
"I Love You Rituals offers more than seventy delightful rhymes and games that send the message of unconditional love and enhance children's social, emotional, and school success.Winner of a 1999 Parent's Guide Children's Media Award, these positive nursery rhymes, interactive finger plays, soothing games, and physically active can be played with children from infancy through age eight. In only minutes a day, these powerful rituals:
- Prime a child's brain for learning
- Help children cope with change
- Enhance attention, cooperation, and self-esteem
- Help busy families stay close
- Affirm the parent-child bond that insulates children from violence, peer pressure, and drugs, and much more.
Easy to learn and especially effective in stressful situations, I Love You Rituals gives parents, grandparents, caregivers, and teachers inspiring tools to help children thrive."
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Helpful Resource: Success Strategies 4 Kids
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Sherry Lewis, LPC, Success Strategies 4 Kids, is committed to making important, life-impacting, personal and social skills, available to kids, providing them with powerful strategies for getting along with others successfully, and living life well. These skills impact, and in large part determine happiness, and even success of any individual's life.
I attended her Secrets of Friendships workshop with my granddaughter and experienced first-hand how she runs her groups. (Parents are encouraged to "ease drop" in the waiting room so that you can help your child continue the conversation and practice the skills we talk about.) She also teaches Alternatives to Anger workshops for grade schoolers and teens.
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Hi, just a reminder that you're receiving this email because you have expressed an interest in REAL Parenting. Don't forget to add stephanie@REALparenting.com to your address book so we'll be sure to land in your inbox!
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